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Make
a list of "accomplishments" (best underwater basket
weaver, best nuclear power plant designer, best TV
remote control switcher, etc.) and print them on
pieces of paper. A speaker selects the award and
must "award" it to another member. That member must
get up and "accept" the award. |
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Cut
pictures from the newspaper or magazines. Have the
table topics respondent come up and pick one and
tell the club what is happening in the picture. (Of
course, no captions are attached to the pictures.)
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Bring in
a box of fortune cookies. Pass them around and have
everyone read their fortune and respond to it. (use
tweezers and remove old fortune and insert your own
- perhaps one for a specific individual in your
club). |
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Table
topics respondents are given an unusual object and
asked to tell everyone what it is and how it is
used. As an alternate, they might be asked to sell
the object to the club. |
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Give
each person a "Dear Abby" question and have them
give their advice. |
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Provide
each participant with a very obscure (but actual)
word from the dictionary, and the participant comes
up with a convincing definition. |
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The
continuous story. Start the story yourself - then
call on a person to continue the story. That person
calls on someone else to continue, and so on.One
minute per person. |
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Food:
most memorable meal; favorite food; least favorite
food; worst meal; strangest place ever eaten; most
expensive meal; most embarrassing meal moment. |
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Discuss
a weird place to live and defend the place as a nice
place to live: next to a nuclear power plant; in a
swamp; bottom of the grand canyon; top of the
Matterhorn. |
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Put
everyday stuff into a bag and let each speaker
select an item to discuss. However, the year is 2525
and the speaker is an archeologist. They will
explain their opinion as to what the item was back
in the 20th. century and how it was used. |
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Take
interesting articles from the weekly tabloids
(Weekly World News and National Enquirer are
especially good). Each speaker is required to
discuss and/or defend and/or explain the amazing
things reported (Man finds green glob in
closet...and it eats his dog)! The weirder the
better. |
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Each
speaker is required to tell an amazing story about
themselves. The members then vote for each speaker
as having told the truth or not. The speaker who
fooled the most people either way, wins topics.
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Collect
some products off the grocery shelf or hardware
store. Each TT speaker selects one of the items out
of a bag and has to do a TV commercial on that
product. |
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The
Impromptu Murders: Each person would be given one
line and would have to weave a story from it. Here
are a dozen different story lines to use. |
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It was a dark and stormy night as lightning
flashed through the window pane.....
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When the guests heard the noise they stumbled
down the hallway only to discover....
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The police arrived and asked everyone to....
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Fearing for my own safety I told the Police, "I
couldn't have done it because I....."
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Seeing that now was the right time, the butler
stepped forward and declared.....
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Old Mrs. Marple didn't think anyone knew about
her relationship with the deceased. I then stood
up and told the group.....
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Gasping for breath and holding her throat, the
maid stumbled into the drawing room....
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It was then that the front door burst open and
who should step in but....
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"No!", I cried. "It was I who did it, for you
see the dead man was my........"
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Surprising everyone, the dead man picked himself
up off of the floor, looked around at the
gathering and said.....
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Just when all had felt the mystery solved, the
light went out.....
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The policeman then stepped forward and announced
to the guests, with a big smile on his face....
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On
individual slips of paper list just a year. Have TT
respondents draw out a slip and relate something
that happened during that year. |
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On
individual slips of paper list just a word, a topic,
a saying, etc. Have TT respondents draw out a slip
and relate what that item means to them. |
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Prepare
cards with transportation options (car, motor home,
airplane, balloon, etc) and cards with your budget
($5000, $100, just won the lottery, etc). Each
participant takes a transportation and budget card
and tells about their vacation. |
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Provide
a list of funny "world records" and have each
volunteer draw one and explain how they came to be
the world record holder in this area. |
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